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...policeman was assaulted by students. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly responded to the mayhem as big-city mayors often do: she announced plans to post 60 more cops on campus. But her predecessor in the job is convinced that a higher power is required. Ex-mayor and now councilman Marion Barry has proposed a law allowing students to lead nonsectarian classroom prayers. "Maybe, just maybe, it will turn some of our values around," he says. "We've lost...
Perhaps the best way to explain Antonio Pagan is to remember that it took Richard Nixon to open China. As councilman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, Pagan may be the only elected official in America who is an openly gay Puerto Rican liberal. Yet these days he is best known as the champion of a distinctly unprogressive-sounding cause: an effort to sweep the homeless people from the streets of his district. In 1991 he spearheaded a successful campaign to chase squatters out of Tompkins Square Park. Now he is leading the charge to block radical gay activists from...
Many citizens of Los Angeles felt as strongly last week that a Perot clone had arrived in city hall. Immediately after conservative millionaire Riordan won his first election by defeating liberal city councilman Michael Woo 54% to 46%, he was already displaying a get-under-the-hood-and fix-it itchiness. He flew to Sacramento to start hammering state politicians for help in reducing the city's budget deficit, which may reach $500 million this year. He declared he would solve problems by using "simple management techniques," and he did not apologize for pouring $6 million of his own money...
...year after it was shaken by riots, Los Angeles got its first Republican mayor since 1961. Richard Riordan, a rich businessman who financed his campaign largely out of his own pocket, won 54% of the vote -- in a city where George Bush won only 22% -- to defeat city councilman Michael Woo, a liberal Democrat endorsed by Clinton. Riordan will succeed five-term Mayor Tom Bradley, who was elected by a bi-racial coalition that Woo had hoped would carry him to office as well. Riordan's base is among white voters attracted by his promise to make L.A. safe...
With an instinct for contrast, Los Angeles voters pared a passel of 24 politicians vying to replace Mayor Tom Bradley and picked two polar opposites for the June 8 runoff. Venture capitalist Anglo Richard Riordan, 62, calls himself "tough enough to turn L.A. around." Liberal Asian-American city councilman Michael Woo, 41, vows to "build a multiethnic coalition." The campaign, predicted University of Southern California pundit Larry Berg, will be "a knock-down drag...